North Africa: Coca-Cola And Partners Focus On Water Projects

All Africa Monday 27th December, 2010

This year in Morocco, 50 farmers with small properties for the first time were able to count on obtaining water for their crops, with the assistance of Coca-Cola. And about 1,100 people in rural areas there got drinking water and improved sanitation facilities, as well as training on better hygiene. All benefited from a private-public partnership on water resources that will be expanded in 2011 into eight African countries. That's because the world's largest beverage maker has formed a partnership with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the U.N. Development Programme (UNDP) to launch or expand water projects in Algeria, Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Somalia. More than $7.5 million has been committed -- $3.75 million by Coca-Cola -- for ...

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